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Pro quo involving u.s. security aid to ukraine and the presidents interest in having the ukrainians investigate the democratic national committee and handling of a server in 2016. this source tells me much of the presidents thinking is being driven by the news coverage hes been watching over the last 24 hours including mick mulvaneys struggle to defend his walk back during a fox news interview earlier today and this source says its also drif bin allies of the president who hes been speaking with...

Internal efforts to remove him from the white house before democrats moved forward. >> did you ever offer or think to offer the president your resignation? >> absolutely not. was that ever discussed? >> absolutely positively not. >> okay. >> im very happy working there. did i have the perfect press conference? no. again, the facts are on our side. >> jeremy diamond is at the white house for us. so how is mulvaney you know now explaining this quid pro quo admission? i mean how is this new explana...

Before mulvaney admitted there was a quid pro quo during a briefing this week. jeremy, one of the closest friends on capitol hill, and i cant imagine president trump will like what he just heard? >> theres two ways to look at this. first of all the president would like to see all of his republican allies defend him no matter what he says and no matter what the possibilities may be, and on the other hand what we know is graham is saying theres a realm of possibility if there were a crime committe...

Visit is notable. it comes after mick mulvaney admitted to this quid pro quo involving security aid with ukraine before quickly denying it. it also comes because republican members of both the house and the senate are bracing for this likely impeachment of the president. we know that earlier this week, the senate majority leader walked republican members of the senate through what this impeachment trial would likely look like, making clear theres no way to short circuit this process and a trial ...

Developments on that storyline, with that stunning admission a couple days ago from the white house briefing room podium that there was indeed some kind of quid pro quo, that at least the reason for withholding that security aid was in part being driven by the presidents desire for ukraine to investigate democrats as it relates to the 2016 election. but of course, ana, there are other issues also on the table, particularly because a series of decisions by the president in the last week have real...

You said, he admitted to that quid pro quo involving security aid to ukraine and then, of course, he quickly walked it back. lets listen first to the comments from mick mulvaney a couple days ago. >> did he also mention to me in past the corruption that related to the dnc server, absolutely. no question about that. thats why we held up the money. >> quid pro quo. it is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened, as well. >> we do that all the time with for...

Kurds. the witnesses all serve in the trump administration. for the president, though, its a conspiracy hatched by democrats. >> the more america achieves, the more hateful and enraged these crazy democrats become. crazy. that crazy nancy, she is crazy. shes nuts. these people are crazy. theyve gone nuts. democrats are now the party of crazy politicians. >> we begin the hour with the fallout from the white house briefing room. the president said to be miffed at his acting chief of staff. baffled...

Presidential candidates is being groomed by russia to play the spoiler in 2020 and she said it is happened before but does she have any evidence for this charge? welcome to "the lead," im jiha -- im jake tapper. the white house working overtime after the act of the center of the impeachment inquiry mick mulvaney denying saying that trump withhold security aid to pressure the country to conduct an investigation to help president trump political denying it but that is clearly what mick mulvaney ...

About, hes going all of the way to ukraine so that he can get the president to investigate corruption. give me a break. theyre liars. theyre cheaters. these are con men. so mulvaney said exactly what was on his mind and he discovered he messed up. so you messed up, but you told the truth and guess what? youre all going to get caught. >> so i want to play again, what he said, mull vaughny, that is, ms. chairwoman, what he said in his original admission that the u.s. held up the aid to push into t...

Saying essentially the same thing which is i was just following the presidents orders and that is a significant thing. that is what makes this impeachable and the underlying behavior. >> because theres no question it goes to the top. >> normally white house staff tried to insulate the president. you can i have now people running to say the president told me to do this on camera, on the record, before congress, under oath. that is stunning. >> so, nia, the mulvaney statement, right? let me be cle...